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Organic, Natural Production Is Wyoming Workshop Focus
University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service (UW CES) is offering a one-day workshop in Powell to provide ranchers and farmers on the ins and outs of adopting "natural" or "organic" production methods...
2007 alliance yellow pages
2007 marks BEEF magazine's 10th annual listing of industry alliances. Categorized by consumer-based programs, where the focus is on finding, feeding and marketing cattle according to predefined consumer product specifications...
Alliance Numbers Grow - Consolidate
Consumer-based programs listed in the BEEF Alliance Yellow Pages reflect the overall evolution of industry structure. While the numbers flowing through...
Exploring Natural
South Dakota State University (SDSU) Extension beef feedlot specialist Erik Loe, Marshall county (SD) Extension educator Tyler Melroe, and SDSU Extension veterinarian Russ Daly answer some of the most common questions about natural-beef production...
Goin' Natural
If you're puzzling over your future role in a changing beef industry, your answer may be a niche market, one that allows you to differentiate your product...
Twelve Questions On Natural Beef Production
Selling Beef Not Cattle
What's a small eastern Washington rancher to do if he's not satisfied with what he gets for his calves? Some keep doing what they've been doing, and complain about it...
Web Site To Connect Natural Producers To Buyers
Brookings Meeting Explores "Natural" Cattle Production
What is naturally raised?
USDA wants to develop a voluntary standard to address production practices associated with the term naturally raised. Thus, the Ag Marketing Service is...
Feeding Natural
A new South Dakota State University (SDSU) online publication discusses raising cattle without implants, ionophores or antibiotics. In the publication,...
Feeding Natural Cattle Is Topic Of Free Publication
AMS Looks For Input On Defining "Naturally Raised"
Serving The Underserved?
Mainstream beef producers traditionally have looked at natural and organic beef as relatives no one wants to claim the black sheep with strange sounding...
Natural, Organic Beef Labels Surging
Organic beef explodes
A Nutrition Business Journal survey found organic meat sales grew 55% in 2005. Organic sales reached the $14-billion sales mark, representing 2.5% of...
Organic Meat Demand Is Stoking Organic Imports
USDA Proposes Grass-Fed Marketing Claim Standard
Angus Grass-Fed Outfit Seeks Producer/Partners
Pros and cons of pasture finishing
Pros and cons of pasture-finished beef were aired during a recent University of Missouri (MU) Forage Systems Research Center workshop that compared cattle...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
